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'Sunday Girl' may not be Blondie's best song ('The Tide is High' anyone even if it isn't theirs?) but it's from their heyday and still sounds good (there's a French version as well).

Your Song of the Week editor saw them live in Leicester when Debbie Harry came on stage and uttered the opening line "hello Manchester".

There is much to be said about Wagner but whatever you think he is one of the few artists who can confidently claim to have changed an art form; in his case, opera.

The Flying Dutchman has been doomed to an eternity of wandering the seas. Once every seven years, he is able to leave the ship to search for a woman whose perfect love will redeem him. Senta perhaps?

Popular music is full of bad luck stories but Badfinger's takes some beating. Not that they weren't without some success, which makes for the saddest stories of all.

There is a lot of construction, renovation and general moving of stuff going on around the University and City just now.

Now, no doubt it is all being done with 100% efficiency, but just in case here is the definitive 'work not getting done' tribute. Incidentally the song was recorded in the same studio where, a few months later, the Beatles changed the face of popular music.

As you will have read above (we hope), James Sparks will be talking about Bach's Goldberg Variations at the Spitalfields Music Festival. James says of Glenn Gould's interpretation. 

"Variations 3n+2 are all of this type (n=1,2,..,9) - two melodies, fast, one in each hand, with crossing of melodies/hands in every conceivable way you can imagine!"

Disco (or D-I-S-C-O as the song has it) has its critics. Music for people who don't like music being one barb. However, nothing beats a good hook and More, More, More more than delivers.

With the summer party on the horizon, let Chuck get you in the party mood. There are one-hit wonders and no-hit wonders and Chuck might just fall in to the latter category though this song has cult status among the Northern Soulters and has been covered by the likes of Dexy's Midnight Runners.

Written and recorded by Jamaican artist Junior Murvin in protest at police and gang violence in his home country, this song became a success in the US and UK and an anthem of the 1976 Notting Hill Carnival in London which broke out in to riots. The Clash also recorded a version as part of their fusion of reggae and punk.

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Popular music has often borrowed from its classical colleagues, and even from poetry, but often with mixed success. But in this 1939 song by Hoagy Carmichael all falls in to place. The main melodic theme is based on the Fantaisie-Impromptu in C sharp minor by Frédéric Chopin and the lyrics are based on a poem by Jane Brown Thompson. There are many versions. In this one by the Lew Stone Band, vocals are by British crooner Sam Browne.